The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl is a 1991 short story collection for adults by Roald Dahl. The collection containing tales of macabre malevolence comprises many of Dahl’s stories seen in the television series Tales of the Unexpected and previously collected in Kiss, Kiss, Over to you, Switch bitch, Someone like you, Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected.
A collector’s item containing all the stories from Roald Dahl’s world-famous books—Over to You, Someone like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch—plus eight tales of the unexpected
‘The absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale’ Observer
‘Roald Dahl is one of the few writers whose work can accurately be described as addictive’ Irish Times
‘These stories pack their punch… [The] repeated serving right of villains never quite softens the hard-boiled, even cynical, strain in Dahl’s vision of humanity and it’s that ruthless unsentimentalism that is Dahl’s greatest attraction’ Observer
‘Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable, so you never know whether the tyrant or the tyrannized will win in the end’ Daily Telegraph.
